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Placement Brochure 2015-2016 PLACEMENT BROCHURE 2015-2016 DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS 270 BAY STATE ROAD BOSTON, MA 02215 USA http://www.bu.edu/econ PhD Placement Director: Randall P. Ellis Professor of Economics E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 617-353-2741 PhD Administrator: Andrew Campolieto E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 617-353-4454 Boston University College of Arts & Sciences Randall P. Ellis Department of Economics Professor 270 Bay State Road Boston, Massachusetts 02215 [email protected] T 617-353-2741 F 617-353-4449 http://blogs.bu.edu/ellisrp/ 2016 PhD Candidates Boston University Department of Economics October 2015 Dear colleague: Attached please find the CVs and abstracts of the nineteen Ph.D. students on the job market from the Boston University Department of Economics. This is a strong cohort, and I encourage you to consider them carefully for any job openings that you may have. As you may be aware, our department has grown significantly in quality and stature and is now one of the top-rated economics departments in North America and the world. This change in quality has been mirrored in the quality of our graduate students. In the last five years, our doctoral candidates have taken tenure-track jobs at Brown, Harvard Business School, London School of Economics, Purdue, Vanderbilt, Warwick, National University of Singapore, Yale- National University of Singapore, University of Texas – Dallas, Tufts, UNSW, Renmin, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Penn State, Missouri, Wayne State, Oklahoma, Pittsburgh, Michigan State, Indiana, University of Kent, New College, and other fine universities and colleges. Our students have also found research positions at Harvard, The World Bank, IMF, and Federal Reserve; post-doc positions at Harvard, EUI, Minnesota, and Oxford; and jobs at many top consulting companies, research institutes, banks, and central banks. Reflecting a continuing increase in the quality of our entering graduate students and our stringent standards for remaining in the Ph.D. program, we have an excellent group of job market candidates this year. I urge you to closely study the summaries of these candidates and to be in touch with the candidates, their advisors, or me if you need any further information. This full booklet, as well as job market candidate web pages and research papers, are available on our website at http://www.bu.edu/econ/phd/outcomes/phdcandidates/. You can contact me at [email protected], by phone at (617) 353-2741 or by FAX at (617) 353-4449. I will be happy to talk with you about any of the candidates, but in particular about the micro and econometric students, since these are my areas of expertise. My colleague Professor Simon Gilchrist ([email protected], 617-353-6824) is also helping with job placement and is a better choice if you wish to discuss the macroeconomics and international economics candidates more fully. If you have difficulty reaching a candidate, please feel free to contact me or the Ph.D. program administrator Andrew Campolieto by email ([email protected]) or phone at 617-353-4454. I hope the enclosed packet will be useful in your recruiting efforts. Sincerely yours, Randall P. Ellis Professor of Economics Boston University Department of Economics Faculty 270 Bay State Road Boston, MA 02215 http://www.bu.edu/econ Ajayi, Kehinde [email protected] (617) 353-4144 Baxter, Marianne [email protected] (617) 353-2417 Bazzi, Samuel [email protected] (617) 353-6150 Carliner, Geoffrey [email protected] (617) 353-5663 Cati, Regina [email protected] (617) 353-4249 Chamley, Christophe [email protected] (617) 353-4250 Decarolis, Francesco [email protected] (617) 353-4535 Ellis, Randy [email protected] (617) 353-2741 Epstein, Larry [email protected] (617) 353-4142 Fernandez-Val, Ivan [email protected] (617) 353-9670 Fisman, Raymond [email protected] (617) 353-6821 Fiszbein, Martin [email protected] (617) 353-9583 Frydman, Carola [email protected] (617) 353-4396 Garetto, Stefania [email protected] (617) 358-5887 Gilchrist, Simon [email protected] (617) 353-6824 Guren, Adam [email protected] (617) 353-4534 Harris, John [email protected] (617) 353-8903 Huynh, Hsueh-Ling [email protected] (617) 353-6823 Idson, Todd [email protected] (617) 353-2742 Jaumandreu, Jordi [email protected] (617) 358-5925 Jones, Leroy [email protected] (617) 353-4123 Kaido, Hiroaki [email protected] (617) 358-5924 King, Robert [email protected] (617) 353-5941 Koskinen, Benjamiin [email protected] (617) 358-2603 Kotlikoff, Larry [email protected] (617) 353-4002 Lang, Kevin [email protected] (617) 353-5694 Lipman, Bart [email protected] (617) 353-2995 Lucas, Robert [email protected] (617) 353-4147 Ma, Albert [email protected] (617) 353-4010 Manove, Michael [email protected] (617) 353-3299 Margo, Robert [email protected] (617) 353-6819 McKay, Alisdair [email protected] (617) 353-6324 Miao, Jianjun [email protected] (617) 353-6675 Mookherjee, Dilip [email protected] (617) 353-4392 Newman, Andrew [email protected] (617) 358-4354 Noor, Jawwad [email protected] (617) 353-4436 Ortner, Juan [email protected] (617) 353-9583 Paserman, Daniele [email protected] (617) 353-5695 Perron, Pierre [email protected] (617) 353-3026 Persson, Bjorn [email protected] (617) 358-5926 Qu, Zhongjun [email protected] (617) 353-5921 Rysman, Marc [email protected] (617) 353-3086 Schmieder, Johannes [email protected] (617) 358-5923 Switala, Andre [email protected] (617) 358-2604 Tandon, Pankaj [email protected] (617) 353-3089 Terry, Stephen [email protected] (617) 353-4455 Vogelsang, Ingo [email protected] (617) 353-2996 Watson, Bruce [email protected] (617) 353-5851 2015-16 Boston University PhD Job Candidates Name Email Job Market Paper Fields References Macroeconomics Stefania Garetto The Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations in Levent Altinoglu [email protected] International Economics Simon Gilchrist a Credit Network Economy Financial Economics Adam Guren Applied Microeconomics Jawwad Noor Mirko Fillbrunn [email protected] Strategic Voting and Ballot Order Effects Political Economy Dilip Mookherjee Behavioral Economics Daniele Paserman Zhongjun Qu Financial Econometrics Efficient Parameter Estimation for Gustavo Schwenkler Francois Guay [email protected] Asset Pricing Multivariate Jump-Diffusions Pierre Perron Computational Methods Steve Lawrence Rui Albuquerque Apoorva How Does Mutual Fund Reputation Financial Economics [email protected] Andrea Buffa Javadekar Affects Subsequent Fund Flows? International Economics Simon Gilchrist Do Workers Respond Differently Across Labor Economics Johannes Schmieder Kavan Kucko [email protected] Sources of Income: Evidence from Public Economics Kevin Lang Multiple Income Support Programs Macroeconomics Menzie Chinn Health Economics Randall Ellis Upcoding: Evidence from Medicare on Public Economics Thomas McGuire Timothy Layton [email protected] Squishy Risk Adjustment Labor Economics Keith Ericson Econometrics Joseph P. Newhouse Industrial Organization Albert Ma How Do Firms Advertise When Customer Quantitative Marketing Marc Rysman Ying Lei [email protected] Reviews are Available? Applied Game Theory Juan Ortner Applied Econometrics Monic Sun Marc Rysman Gateway Products in the DSLR Camera Industrial Organization Hiroaki Kaido Jiaxuan Li [email protected] Market: Dynamic Demand, Consumer Applied Econometrics Albert Ma Learning and Switching Costs Francesco Decarolis Financial Economics Jianjun Miao Big Data in Testing the Efficient Market Computational Economics Mengmeng Li [email protected] Zhongjun Qu Hypothesis of the Bitcoin Market Econometrics Stephen Terry Labor Economics International Economics Stefania Garetto The Dynamics of R&D Organization and Shuheng Lin [email protected] Industrial Organization Jordi Jaumandreau Productivity Growth Applied Econometrics Marc Rysman Economic History Dense Enough To Be Brilliant: Patents, Robert Margo Elisabeth Innovation [email protected] Urbanization, and Transportation in Carola Frydman Perlman Labor Economics Nineteenth Century America Daniele Paserman Urban/Regional Economics Decision Theory Barton Lipman The Compromise and Attraction Effects Behavioral Economics Alex Poterack [email protected] Jawwad Noor Through Frame Preferences Health Economics Dilip Mookherjee Industrial Organization Dilip Mookherjee Employment Protection and the Labor Development Economics Samuel Bazzi Daniel Schwab [email protected] Informality of the Youth: Evidence from Labor Economics Kevin Lang India Eric Werker What if Managers Are Not Impartial? The Andrew Newman Organizational Economics Yao Shu [email protected] Effect of Favoritism and Influence on Kevin Lang Labor Economics Incentive Design and Employee Effort Michael Manove Political Economy Barton Lipman Aggregate Uncertainty in Runoff Microeconomic Theory Benjamin Solow [email protected] Laurent Bouton Elections and Open Primaries Industrial Organization Juan Ortner Behavioral Economics The Persistent Effects of Credit Macroeconomics Daniele Paserman Patricio Toro [email protected] Availability During Recessions: Evidence Financial Economics Simon Gilchrist from a Natural Experiment Labor Economics Adam Guren Macroeconomics Simon Gilchrist Persistency of History: Financial Friction Ei Yang [email protected] Computational Economics Jianjun Miao and Mobility Distortion Development Economics Robert King Larry Epstein Asset Pricing Confidence, Bond Risks, and Asset Francois Gourio Guihai Zhao [email protected] Macroeconomics Returns Simon Gilchrist Monetary Economics Jianjun Miao Econometrics Zhongjun Qu Likelihood Ratio Based Tests for Markov Time Series Pierre Perron Fan Zhuo [email protected] Regime Switching Macroeconomics Hiroaki Kaido Empirical Finance Jianjun Miao 2016 PhD Candidates Boston University Department of Economics Sorted by Last Name Levent Altinoglu Macroeconomics,
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